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:: i think Ioke and PAKA should be consdidered retired but can someone Email the CPHC to check please?[[User:Jason Rees|Jason Rees]] 20:12, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
I emailed them a few nights ago, and got a very useful response.
Dear Mr. Hink,
Before the start of the 2007 tropical cyclone season, the Central Pacific Hurricane Center worked with members of the University of
Hawaii Hawaiian Studies Department to ensure all of the Hawaiian names on our lists were proper words and didn't have any negative
connotations.
As a result of this review and collaboration, CPHC changed 15 names from the 4 lists published for the 2006 season. If you go to
http://www.ofcm.gov/nhop/07/nhop07.htm Chapter 3, page 3-11, the name in italics are the ones we changed.
1. Ioke was retired because it was such a significant system, but also because it was an incorrect Hawaiian word. So you can
considered it retired, but it would have been removed if it hadn't been retired because it had no Hawaiian meaning.
2. Paka was retired because of the destruction it caused in Guam in 1997.
3. We requested several names from the eastern Pacific including Daniel, Emilia, Estelle, Fabio, Gilma, Guillermo, Jimena, John,
Jova, and Kenneth to be retired, but the World Meteorological Organization Region IV Tropical Cyclone Committee (WMO RA IV TCC)
decided not to retire any of these, so they were not changed.
4. For Hurricanes Fico and Fefa, in 1978 and 1991 respectively, I am not sure whether they were retired or removed. Please contact
Lixion.A.Avila@noaa.gov at the National Hurricane Center who works with the WMO RA IV TCC on the retirement or removal of names from
the lists for the eastern Pacific.
Best Regards and Aloha,
Jim Weyman
Director Central Pacific Hurricane Center
So, based on that, I am adding Ioke and Paka to the retired Pacific hurricane names (yes, Paka should be included because it is a retired Pacific hurricane '''name''', not just retired Pacific hurricane). Also, per the suggestion, I emailed Avila to find out, once and for all, about Fico and Fefa. [[User:Hurricanehink|Hurricanehink]] (<small>[[User_talk:Hurricanehink|talk]]</small>) 02:40, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
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